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Dave Heil wrote:
Len Over 21 wrote:

Some say that the infrastructure "always" fails. :-)

Hardwired communications infrastructure is much more likely to fail.

Hi! I'm sure the Chase and Bank One have switched over to digital HF
networks moving their financial data around.

All cellular phones interface to wire lines at some point.

Dave K8MN

My wired phones worked just fine during the Christmas ice storm. The
adjacent wires carrying power didn't. It's all so confusing.


Not when you know that wired phone systems and designs are so old fashioned
that they get their power through the telephone line itself rather than the
power distribution grid and that many of the phone companies still have
their emergency generators to supply power when the power grid does go down.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE